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Data & Storage Architecture Flashcards

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  1. A data architect needs to design a solution for ingesting, storing, and analyzing large volumes of data from multiple sources with both batch and real-time processing capabilities. Which Azure service provides this unified analytics platform?

    Answer: Azure Synapse Analytics

    Azure Synapse Analytics is a unified analytics platform that integrates big data and data warehousing with both batch processing and real-time analytics in a single service.

  2. An architect must design a solution where Azure Cosmos DB consistency needs to balance between strong consistency for reads and high write throughput globally. Which consistency level provides linearizability with lowest write latency tradeoff?

    Answer: Bounded Staleness

    Bounded Staleness guarantees reads lag writes by at most K versions or T time interval, providing strong ordering guarantees with better write throughput than Strong consistency.

  3. A company needs to implement a hot path and cold path architecture (lambda architecture) for IoT data on Azure. Which combination of services best represents this pattern?

    Answer: Event Hubs + Stream Analytics (hot) and Data Factory + Synapse (cold)

    Event Hubs with Stream Analytics handles the real-time hot path while Data Factory with Synapse Analytics processes historical batch data in the cold path of a lambda architecture.

  4. An architect needs to choose between Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files for a scenario where multiple Azure VMs running Windows need to access a shared file system via SMB protocol. Which service is appropriate?

    Answer: Azure Files

    Azure Files provides fully managed file shares accessible via SMB and NFS protocols, suitable for shared file system access across multiple Azure VMs.

  5. A company wants to implement geo-redundant storage for their Azure SQL Database to ensure data is replicated to a paired region for disaster recovery with an RPO of less than 5 seconds. Which feature should be configured?

    Answer: Azure SQL Database active geo-replication

    Azure SQL Database active geo-replication creates up to 4 readable secondary replicas in paired or other regions with asynchronous replication achieving RPO typically under 5 seconds.

  6. An architect is designing a document storage solution for an application that requires schema flexibility, rich queries with indexing on all fields, and horizontal scaling. Which Azure NoSQL service best fits this requirement?

    Answer: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (SQL API)

    Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (SQL API) provides schema-less document storage with automatic indexing on all fields and rich SQL query capabilities with global scaling.